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segrsyd · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

The recovery model of schizophrenia is based on four assumptions. What is one of these assumptions?

a. All individuals with schizophrenia fully recover from the illness.
b. Schizophrenia is a chronic disorder with an inevitably poor prognosis.
c. Schizophrenia is a chronic medical condition that does not define the individual.
d. Empowering the individual helps correct the sense of powerlessness and dependence that results from traditional medical health care.

Question 2

Which statement concerning differences in brain structure between individuals with and without schizophrenia is accurate?

a. Individuals with schizophrenia have enlarged ventricles; individuals without schizophrenia do not.
b. Older adults with schizophrenia have demonstrated a strikingly rapid loss of gray matter compared with non-affected age peers.
c. Decreased cortical volumes have been found in individuals with schizophrenia, but not in people who do not have the disorder.
d. Individuals with schizophrenia have decreased volume in the cortex and other areas of the brain.